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The Standish report: does it really describe a software crisis?

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Reconsidering the relevancy of a frequently cited report on software project failures.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 8
            Music information retrieval
            August 2006
            87 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/1145287
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